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adcendentibus, nervis secundariis prominentibus, laxis, subparal- 
lelis; inflorescentiis caulifloris, racemosis, racemis solitariis vel 
fasciculatis, pedicellis tenuibus, elongatis, articulatis, minutis- 
sime bibracteolatis ; floribus 4-meris, calycibus truncatis. 
Apparently a scandent shrub, glabrous except for the long 
ciliate-setose hairs on the branchlets, and occasionally a very 
few on the petioles and the lower surface of the leaves, these 
hairs brownish, 3 to 4 mm long. Branches terete, rather slender, 
brownish. Leaves opposite, those of each pair subequal, oblong 
to oblong-elliptic, chartaceous to subcoriaceous, shining, of about 
the same color on both surfaces when dry or somewhat brownish 
beneath, 20 to 25 cm long, 7 to 9 cm wide, apex acuminate or 
sharply acute, base acute, sometimes a little inequilateral ; nerves 
4 pairs, leaving the midrib below the middle, pinnately arranged, 
curved-ascending, the upper pair reaching the apex of the leaf, 
the reticulations or secondary nerves lax, prominent, subparallel ; 
petioles about 3 cm long. Inflorescence from the stems below 
the leaves, of many-flowered, short, rather dense, solitary or fas- 
cicled racemes 5 cm long or less, the pedicels slender, reddish, as- 
cending, persistent, numerous, about 2 cm long, jointed at about 
the middle, there with a pair of minute bracteoles. Flowers 
unknown. Fruit red or purplish, fleshy, somewhat urceolate, 
about 8 mm long, the fruit proper globose or globose-ovoid, 
glabrous, the calyx-limb produced, about 3 mm long, truncate, 
the teeth represented by 4 slender ridges on the outside. 
Luzon, Province of Cagayan, Abulug River, on a fallen tree, in forest. 
Bur. Sci. 13998 Ramos, February, 1912; Pamplona, Bur. Sci. 7Jf83 Ramos, 
March, 1909, in forests. 
A very characteristic species apparently allied to Medinilla loheri Merr., 
and to M. disparifolia C. B. Rob., Avell characterized by its cauline, race- 
mose inflorescence, the pedicels very slender, straight, stiff, and jointed in 
the middle, as well as by its pinnately veined leaves. Possibly not a 
species of the genus, which can only be determined by an examination of 
the flowers, the latter being at present unknown. 
11. MEDINILLA GRACILIPES sp. nov. 
Frutex glaber, ramulis teretibus, nodis vix setosis; foliis op- 
positis, lanceolatis vel oblongo-lanceolatis, petiolatis, acuminatis, 
usque ad 10 cm longis, basi triplinerviis ; inflorescentiis e axillis 
defoliatis, pendulis, pedunculis gracilibus, 15 cm longis, pani- 
culis laxis, ramis verticillatis ; fructibus ut videtur 4-locellatis. 
A glabrous shrub, erect or scandent, the branches and branch- 
lets slender, terete, the ultimate ones 1.5 mm in diameter or less, 
the nodes not setose. Leaves opposite, lanceolate or oblong- 
